Steam generator for cloth pressing and steaming devices



A. H. SCHMIDT 2,084,282 STEAM GENERATOR FOR CLOTH PRESSING AND STEAMING DEVICES `une l5, 1937.

Filed June 30, 1934 fz @van i0 24. MW

Patented June 15, 1937 UNiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE Alexander Hugo Schmidt, Berlin, Germany Application June 30, 1934, Serial No. '733,188

1 In Germany July l1, 1933 2 Claims.

In nishing and renovating clothes and clothingV which, however, dry steam plays an important part.

The object of the present invention is to obtain convenient means, for supplying steam from a single source to the different implements, and theV invention consists in the provision of a steam generator in the form of a cylindrical boiler having a shallow steam dome, and a pair of pipes carried vertically through the boiler and connected to opposite ends of a steam superheating pipe arranged between the bottom of the boiler and the heating elements for the latter, one of said pipes terminating in the steam dome for feeding the steam from the latter through the superheating pipe, the other pipe being carried, as a steam supply pipe, through the steam dome to the outside, and boiler and dome being enclosed in an insulating jacket to prevent loss of heat.

The steam supply pipe terminates outside the boiler in a plurality of valve-controlled branches connected to the diiferent implements any one of which will thus be ready for immediate use.

Fig. l of the accompanying drawing represents a front view of a device constructed according to the invention, and Y Fig. 2 is a sectional side view of the same.

The steam generator comprises a cylindrical boiler I which is provided with a shallow steam dome and which is enclosed together with the latter in a heat insulating jacket 9. The boiler is heated either by gas or electricity, the burners 8 or other heating elements being mounted under the boiler in the supporting frame 2. Between the heating elements and the bottom of the boiler a U-shaped steam superheating pipe 1 is arranged in position to receive heat from the heating elements. A pair of pipes I and 1" are carried vertically through the boiler and connected to opposite ends of The pipe 'I terminates at the top in the steam dome 0 for feeding the steam from the latter into the superheater, and the pipe 1" is carried through the dome to the outside for supplying dry steam to the different pressing and steaming implements. For this purpose the steam supply pipe terminates outside the boiler in a plurality of branches having flexible extensions. One branch is fitted with a valve 22 for regulating the steam supply to a pressing iron 23, and other branches, fitted with controlling valves I8, supply steam to hand steaming and beating implements I9 and 20. The latter may be normally supported in holders 2| carried by the pipe. Any one of these implements will thus be ready for immediate use.

Arranged within the insulating jacket above the boiler is a U-shaped feed water heater I0 which is filled from a funnel 24 and which is connected through a pipe I2 to a hand pump I3 for transferring the preheated water to the boiler. The pipe I4 which leads from the pump to the boiler branches off at I5 to a blow-out valve. An overflow pipe II indicates when the feed water heater is full. The funnel 24 can also be used for feeding water direct through a pipey 3 into the boiler when there is no pressure in the latter.

The boiler is tted with a water gauge 5, a water gauge cock 4, a manometer I6, and asafety valve I1. l

I claim:

l. A steam generator for cloth pressing and steaming devices, comprising a cylindrical boiler having a shallow steam dome, a heating element arranged under said boiler, a steam superheating pipe arranged between the heating element and the boiler, a pair of Y pipes carried vertically through the boiler and connected to opposite ends of said superheating pipe, one of said vertical pipes terminating in the steam dome for feeding the steam from the latter to the superheating pipe, the other vertical pipe being carried as aA steam supply pipe through the dome to the outside, an insulating jacket surrounding the boiler and steam dome, a feed water heater arranged within the insulating jacket above thev boiler, a hand pump for feeding water from said heater into the boiler, a funnel for filling said heater, and valve-controlled communication between said funnel and the boiler for feeding water direct into the latter.

2. A structure as claimed in claim lin combina# tion with holders for steaming and pressing implements connected to the steam supply pipe, and valve-controlled connections between the pipe and said implements.

ALEXANDER HUGO SCHMIDT. 

